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Which character has the worst luck? There is one character that I can think of that would be the best person for this question … however, if I were to answer it that way, I would give away a huge plot twist that I feel would ruin things, so I’m going to go with another
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Saturday Snippet #3 You’d think that this would be getting easier and easier to do, but it’s not. Sigh. Oh, well. Maybe it will at some point? This snippet is actually a deleted piece that I did that I’d like to incorporate at some point just because I like the interactions between the characters and
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Adjectives to describe Paradiso Well, this is harder than it seems, seeing as I’ve been staring at my screen for the last fifteen minutes without any progress. It’s always easier to describe other people’s works: Battlestar Galactica is gritty yet hopeful, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is quippy and irreverent, Bob’s Burgers is wholesome and witty
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Rumors in Paradiso And yay, an opportunity to talk about yet another one of my favorite characters to write: Tate Bjorge, the husband to Catherine Nzingha, whose entire outward personality is based on rumors. Who is Tate? His public face tells one story – he’s the perpetually cheating husband of Catherine Nzingha; a playboy entertainment
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Birthdays in Paradiso Birthdays are … treated like they are now, I guess? But for people like Dee Manzen, they can be difficult. For starters, she doesn’t know when – or where – she was born originally, so she just goes by the date she remembers waking up for the first time: in the middle
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Would your character embrace their fate or fight it? I’ve actually really been looking forward to this post because I finally get to talk about Fan, probably one of my favorite characters to write at any given time because she’s just … I just love her so much. Anyway … Fan was able to escape
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Superstitions in Paradiso Marjani “Jani” Reis is a ship’s captain, and that role almost always comes with a lot of superstitions. Before she starts on another voyage, she has to tap three times on the stained glass picture of St. Clement’s anchor that hangs on the bridge, and the night before leaving a port, she
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Humor in Paradiso As much as I’d like to channel Terry Pratchett into Paradiso, I have a feeling that it would just come across as forced. I’m not clever enough to be a satire writer, no matter how much I’d love to, so I’m leaning into my strengths. Plus, this story isn’t really a light
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Risks in Paradiso This is yet another ambiguously worded prompt, but hey, that gives me a lot of freedom to talk about Paradiso in ways that aren’t just about risks the characters take in the story (because I really don’t wanna give that away just yet!).
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For the month of April, I’m taking a challenge I saw over on … Bluesky I think? Although it probably started out over on Instagram …
a little more juju 